[tdwg-content] New term needs resolution: yearOfPublication

Peter Desmet peter.desmet at umontreal.ca
Wed Jul 6 13:46:15 CEST 2011


The shortlink http://goo.gl/8WkJa has been disabled (at least on my
computer), can you include the full URL to the issue?

On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 05:24, John Wieczorek <tuco at berkeley.edu> wrote:
> Looks like this one is off to a good start. If there is no dissenting
> opinion in the next 30 days, it looks like it'll be included.
>
> On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 6:00 PM, Peter DeVries <pete.devries at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I have something similar that I use for stating the year the species was
>> described.
>> This is useful for sorting by year etc.  So +1
>> Note the datatype rdf:datatype="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#gYear"
>>
>>
>> From http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ses/v6n7p.html RDF http://10.10.10.122:3000/ses/v6n7p.rdf
>>     <txn:yearDescribed
>> rdf:datatype="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#gYear">1771</txn:yearDescribed>
>>
>> Ontology
>>     <!-- http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ontology/txn.owl#yearDescribed -->
>>     <owl:DatatypeProperty
>> rdf:about="http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ontology/txn.owl#yearDescribed">
>>         <rdfs:label
>> rdf:datatype="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#gYear">yearDescribed</rdfs:label>
>>         <rdfs:comment>The year that the species was originally
>> described</rdfs:comment>
>>         <rdfs:isDefinedBy
>> rdf:resource="http://lod.taxonconcept.org/ontology/txn.owl"/>
>>         <rdfs:range rdf:resource="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#gYear"/>
>>     </owl:DatatypeProperty>
>> - Pete
>> On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 5:35 PM, John Wieczorek <tuco at berkeley.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>> Darwin Core Issue 84: http://goo.gl/8WkJa
>>>
>>> This issue has not undergone public commentary.
>>>
>>> Open Issues:
>>> Determine if there is a demand for this term. Though the term is
>>> well-described in the issue tracker, there is no evidence of a
>>> real-world need for it. There has to be a demonstrated need from more
>>> than one "independent" source for a term to enter into consideration
>>> for addition to the Darwin Core.
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>>
>>
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>> Pete DeVries
>> Department of Entomology
>> University of Wisconsin - Madison
>> 445 Russell Laboratories
>> 1630 Linden Drive
>> Madison, WI 53706
>> Email: pdevries at wisc.edu
>> TaxonConcept  &  GeoSpecies Knowledge Bases
>> A Semantic Web, Linked Open Data  Project
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